Work category 331: Property purchase – state highways

Introduction

This work category A type of activity – not confined to a particular activity class, e.g. new roads (work category 323) appears in:

* activity class 12 – local road improvements
* activity class 13 – state highways improvements provides for the purchase of land by the NZTA for new and improved roading infrastructure for state highways.

This definition applies to the 2012-15 NLTP A National Land Transport Programme Interrelated and complementary combination of activities that, when delivered in a coordinated manner, produce synergies – can span more than one work category and more than one activity class, e.g. a programme could include a road improvement and public transport improvement activities. adopted by the NZTA under section 19 of the LTMA, as from time to time amended or varied .  For the 2015-18 NLTP please refer to the updated definition for work category 331.

Examples of qualifying activities

Examples of qualifying activities include, but may not be limited to:

• valuation
• legal surveys
• acquisitions, and
• compensation.

Other potential activities not shown above should be discussed with the NZTA for eligibility.

Conditions

Conditions include:

• funding assistance will be based on the purchase price
• all costs must be identified by project and available for audit
• a land plan must be available for audit purposes and must indicate the area of land to be purchased and the part that is to be converted to road reserve A legally described area within which facilities such as roads, footpaths That portion of the road reserve set aside for the use of pedestrians only. and associated features may be constructed and maintained for public travel. , with each individual property to be identified on the plan, and
• net land costs (total gross cost less actual or estimated value from disposal of surplus land) to be entered and updated in Transport Investment Online at the project level for large projects and group level for small projects.

Funding assistance rate

The usual funding assistance rate for this work category A type of activity – not confined to a particular activity class, e.g. new roads (work category 323) appears in:

* activity class 12 – local road improvements
* activity class 13 – state highways improvements is:

• 100 percent for the NZTA (state highways).